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Also in Phoenix, a few days ago there was a shooting a few days ago at the drive-thru of a Jack in the Box about 7 miles away, where one employee was killed and another wounded. Sounded at the time somebody was unhappy with their Sourdough Jack, but it turned out to be two young (22-23) year-old women who were working there had an argument over who had to take out the trash. One of the women had a boyfriend who also worked there and according to the other woman, he intervened and intimidated her. Other woman goes home, gets her boyfriend and they go back to the restaurant. Boom-boom, one guy is dead and the other guy might as well be. All over two gals who couldn't agree whose job it was.
 
Wow, we get the minor drug dealers 'settling' territory disputes every couple of years but never the fast food kids shooting it out.
 
Americans will start shooting at the most ridiculous things. Whose turn it was to take the trash out? Yeah, sounds about right.
 
There are hundreds of social worker job vacancies because of issues with the image of the profession:

The negative perception of social workers needs to change to recruit more into the profession, it has been claimed.

BBC Wales research shows three councils in Wales had social worker vacancy rates of more than 30%.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-63961380

I cannot imagine why. :rolleyes:

I mean yes they are chronically underpaid and hopelessly overworked with far more cases than they can possibly manage but why wouldn't you do a job where you are hauled over the coals when you fail to remove a child from a dangerous situation and it goes wrong AND when you remove a child and the local media decides it was unnecessary.
 
The Don said:
There are hundreds of social worker job vacancies because of issues with the image of the profession:



https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-63961380

I cannot imagine why. :rolleyes:

I mean yes they are chronically underpaid and hopelessly overworked with far more cases than they can possibly manage but why wouldn't you do a job where you are hauled over the coals when you fail to remove a child from a dangerous situation and it goes wrong AND when you remove a child and the local media decides it was unnecessary.
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This reminds me late Victorian Premier and proud feminist and socialist Joan Kirner when asked the prevalence of a lot of very marginal cases of social workers taking children from their parents. She cracked a very bad taste but funny joke.

“What’s the difference between your child being attacked by a pack of Rottweilers and being visited by social workers?”

“You have a chance of getting the child off the Rottweilers”

Seriously, it’s a very difficult but necessary job. Not only is the pay not great, but too many here have mere Diploma qualifications. They should have graduate if not post graduate qualifications.
 
Local boy to participate in the NSW Schools Spectacular.

And doctors at the local hospital have been warned not to take naps during overnight shifts.

I'm thinking of moving somewhere where the pace isn't quite so hectic.
 
Of course, the biggest problem with local news has been the virtual disappearance of local newspapers, at least in Victoria Australia. Killed off in the end by covid, but that only accelerated their demise. If you read it through (but who did) you would inevitably find a mention of somebody you know.

Where else do I find stories about local fetes, wine tastings, raffles, fox attacks on chickens, flower shows etc etc.

Yes I know the answer to that, but I’m not really motivated to Google “fetes in local area”. I wanted someone else to do the work for me.
 
lionking said:
Of course, the biggest problem with local news has been the virtual disappearance of local newspapers, at least in Victoria Australia. Killed off in the end by covid, but that only accelerated their demise. If you read it through (but who did) you would inevitably find a mention of somebody you know.

Where else do I find stories about local fetes, wine tastings, raffles, fox attacks on chickens, flower shows etc etc.

Yes I know the answer to that, but I’m not really motivated to Google “fetes in local area”. I wanted someone else to do the work for me.
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Lots of local areas have local community online groups...

(quite similar to this site)

I don't know where you live, but it's worth finding if you have one.

Friends have regaled me with stories from their communities from time to time...

Local council, or your local library could probably tell you if one is running in your area.
 
Most places have one or more Facebook groups, but there are also local social media apps like Nextdoor that are local community focused. Canberra also has the (afaik) independent webiste https://the-riotact.com/ which is where I get most of my local news.

Speaking of which, the absolutely ridiculous pollen count is making the news right now.

Canberra pollen breaks records as TGA approves first new antihistamine in more than a decade

I discovered last year that adult onset seasonal allergies are totally a thing. Fifty years I haven't had to deal with hay fever, until now. It sucks.
 
TragicMonkey said:
Local news is convenient for weather and traffic-impacting news. I've been helped by articles such as "Oh yeah, this major interchange will be closed for six months" and "welp, this part of the city is currently underwater". Also if you are considering one day purchasing real estate it's handy to keep a mental note of how many times you see particular neighborhoods mentioned in the local news. My limit is a hundred shootings a year.
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Got it all covered!

I live in Silicon Valley so no chance of me buying a home or wanting to.
I have a search tab open on my browser with "weather" typed in there.
Don't care about road conditions that much. Got map apps for that.

I just turned 55 so I'm old now and I don't care anymore!!!

I don't care what the rest of the city is doing. I don't care if the home team wins or dies in a plane crash (the latter would be national news anyways). Was there a shooting? Great, didn't happen near me and it probably won't. I look up crime stats when I move. If there were shootings I'd hear them myself anyways.

Having a flea market, a bake sale? Good for you I don't care. Nuns killed in a bus accident? Cool! How many?

**** everyone and **** everything, that's my motto baby! If I want to know about something I'll look it up.

If it doesn't shoot me, stab me, run me over, flip me the bird, steal my vote or give me a fat sack of cash I don't need to know about it!

The only reason I follow national news is so I can hang out here with you turkeys and a monkey as some sort of twisted self-punishment for crimes I must have committed in a previous life.

What's a flood? Last time I saw one was when I overfilled the reservoir in my grow room back in 2009.

"Flood WTFs a flo...can't even yell at people to get off my lawn, the gawdamm drought took my ******* lawn!!!! Guy's talking 'bout floods...rabble rabble"

Local schmocal! Best thing I could do for myself is throw my internet out the window and watch it crash onto the patio.

"Take that!!!", he screamed. "Oh YAAAAA that's right.....who's laughing now? WHO'S LAUGHING NOOOOWWWWWWWW HAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!"
 
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Local news here, the LA cancelled a regular Licencing committee meeting on Monday. It's only news because we are taking the piss out of them because it was cancelled because of "adverse weather conditions", i.e. the inch of snow we had.
 
Back in the semi-local news is a long term recurring controversy over....the Rutland high school football team's name and mascot. The were for a long time the Rutland Raiders, with a logo of an Indian chief in headdress, etc. And not surprisingly these days, it was decided that this is not a very good idea, and thus has begun a years-long controversy, with Raider recidivists taking over the town boards, and recriminations and so forth. Nobody seems able to come up with a team name that satisfies everyone. They were to be the Ravens for a while, but then they were back to the Raiders, and then Ravens then Raiders, and a recent vote to just drop the whole thing and call them "Rutland" got a majority, but not a two thirds majority, so on it goes. The news report is not specific about the unpleasantness at recent meetings, but makes note of it. Some feather have definitely been ruffled.
 
bruto said:
Back in the semi-local news is a long term recurring controversy over....the Rutland high school football team's name and mascot. The were for a long time the Rutland Raiders, with a logo of an Indian chief in headdress, etc. And not surprisingly these days, it was decided that this is not a very good idea, and thus has begun a years-long controversy, with Raider recidivists taking over the town boards, and recriminations and so forth. Nobody seems able to come up with a team name that satisfies everyone. They were to be the Ravens for a while, but then they were back to the Raiders, and then Ravens then Raiders, and a recent vote to just drop the whole thing and call them "Rutland" got a majority, but not a two thirds majority, so on it goes. The news report is not specific about the unpleasantness at recent meetings, but makes note of it. Some feather have definitely been ruffled.
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We went through that here about ten years ago. Port Townsend High was the Redskins, and their big rivalry was with the Chimacum Cowboys. It's a liberal little town and some people wanted it changed, others did not. Eventually the state high school athletic association banned all such names and they became the Redhawks.
The Redhawks wore red. The Cowboys wore blue. But the two districts have wound up combining their athletic programs due to cost and attendance. The combined team is the East Jefferson Rivals. They wear purple.

Front page stories in yesterday's paper:
Council OK's 2023 Budget
Tiny house make big difference
AAUW names this years Woman of Excellence
 
bruto said:
Back in the semi-local news is a long term recurring controversy over....the Rutland high school football team's name and mascot. The were for a long time the Rutland Raiders, with a logo of an Indian chief in headdress, etc. And not surprisingly these days, it was decided that this is not a very good idea, and thus has begun a years-long controversy, with Raider recidivists taking over the town boards, and recriminations and so forth. Nobody seems able to come up with a team name that satisfies everyone. They were to be the Ravens for a while, but then they were back to the Raiders, and then Ravens then Raiders, and a recent vote to just drop the whole thing and call them "Rutland" got a majority, but not a two thirds majority, so on it goes. The news report is not specific about the unpleasantness at recent meetings, but makes note of it. Some feather have definitely been ruffled.
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uhhh no one suggested the Rutland Rutles?

 
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